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Boy oh boy, that Nintendo DS sure was ugly.
- Thread starter BladeoftheImmortal
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It was quite ugly.
But it also had Feel the Magic and the mini-games in Mario 64 DS so I still loved it.
But it also had Feel the Magic and the mini-games in Mario 64 DS so I still loved it.
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Not remotely. Game Boy Advance SP wasn't ugly. GameCube was unique and weird but not ugly -- color preference aside. Wii was amazingly sleek, as is the Switch.
Wii U was boring, I'll give you that, but not ugly like the original DS or the third PS3.
Yeah, the OG DS was ugly. But it had a fantastic D-Pad, IMO. I played a lot of GBA games on it because of that. Tis how I beat Astro Boy: Omega Factor.
On the plus side, the battery is compatible with GBA SP with some slight modification and has 40% more capacity. So it did provide some good.
For some reason Astro Boy never worked on my DS. Gunstar Super Heroes rarely ever left that slot though.
My roommate bought an original DS on launch day, but we almost never played it. I thought it was a failed system, for sure, and I bought a PSP on its launch day... which, to me, also had a dismal first year.
My roommate moved out right before the floodgates opened and all these great DS games released: Dawn of Sorrow, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Phoenix Wright, etc. so I had to buy my own DS. I felt stupid when the Lite was announced soon after.
My roommate moved out right before the floodgates opened and all these great DS games released: Dawn of Sorrow, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Phoenix Wright, etc. so I had to buy my own DS. I felt stupid when the Lite was announced soon after.
It always reminded me of the canceled NES prototype
Expect the AES design was dope!
The DS looks bad, but then you out it next to a PSP and it really does look like garbage.
i like the blue one. weird piece of hardware, but if the screens were better I'd be fine with it.
I prefer the form factor of the original. The smaller, dimmer screens sucked, but the d-pad felt nicer, it was better to hold, had better feeling shoulder buttons, and wasn't a complete fingerprint magnet. If the screens were the same between the original and Lite, I'd have stuck with the original.
OG DS had the best D-Pad of all time in a handheld. Hell, all the buttons felt great.
But yeah it was ugly af
But yeah it was ugly af
I might not have actually seen an original DS in person until I already owned a Lite. I remember seeing it and being surprised how bad it looked. It was also a few years old and a grey (?) one which didn't help.
The poor N64 never gets credit for being a good looker. I guess it's a matter of taste but look at this, it's an old school Corvette in console form
I swear the last time I charged my OG DS was in 2014 and I shit you not, I fired it up a couple weeks ago and the thing still had a full battery.
Hard disagree OP, and it's revisionist shit that the PSP was going to trounce the DS...maybe f you were a Sony fanboy in 2004 but the GBA had just sold literally 80 million units. Why would Nintendo's successor do worse? People were into the touch screen too and the double screens made it stand out in stores.
dsi still looks amazingBe careful who you make fun of in middle school
Bought a PSP in Summer 05, got a DS in January 06. Crap industrial design on the DS, but the games were more fun than PSP. Mario Kart and NSMB were dynamite. Returned the DS to Costco and bought a Lite on release day - what a nice piece of gear.
NES, Game Boy, GBA, Wii, Wii U, etc.
Nintendo 3DS looked a little goofy at launch but the New 3DS revision dealt with that
I preferred its clicky buttons over the lite's mushy ones. At least they rectified that with the 3ds.
Yeah, I don't like it that much. The DS Lite felt like multiple generations later in terms of design. I do still use an OG for GBA games sometimes because I like how it feels somewhat and for nostalgia... mainly nostalgia.
Both my OG and Lites binge broke on me from normal usage, so I'm not sure on that.
It sure was. It became pretty much useless once the Lite released, so I sold the OG off and picked one up.
I always wondered if Nintendo rushed the DS launch to counter the PSP. The GBA was still doing incredibly well, and without any serious competition I don't see why Nintendo would be compelled to introduce the "third pillar".
The DS Lite looks more like a finished product, and the timing makes alot of sense. GBA launched in 2001, and DS Lite launched in 2006. I never really thought about it until later, but the OG DS does look like a lumpish prototype next to the DS Lite.
The DS Lite looks more like a finished product, and the timing makes alot of sense. GBA launched in 2001, and DS Lite launched in 2006. I never really thought about it until later, but the OG DS does look like a lumpish prototype next to the DS Lite.
We get a lot of thunderstorms around here, so plug-in alarm clocks are unreliable, and I don't sleep with my phone by the bed like a lot of people do. Ergo, DS alarm clock. Only needs to be charged every month or so, if that.